parking tickets
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Drivers, Rejoice! That Parking Ticket Just May Be a Violation of Constitutional Proportions
In towns and cities across the U.S., one may hear a cheer go up among drivers long plagued by the scourge of parking tickets after a federal appeals court ruled that parking enforcement’s use of chalk to mark tires (and time) to issue parking tickets is a violation of Fourth Amendment bans on unreasonable searches.…
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If You Live in One of Chicago’s Black Neighborhoods, Stop Reading This and Go Check on Your Car
While you’re probably familiar with the phenomenon of “driving while black,” a new investigation on Chicago police officers’ tendency to issue multiple tickets for the same parking violations has ushered in a new, absurd phrase into the cultural lexicon. We shall call it “not driving while black.” WBEZ and ProPublica Illinois analyzed a decade of…